Populism raises awkward question about modern forms of democracy. It often represents the ugly face of the people. It is neither the highest form of democracy nor its enemy.  Meer

This work questions the nature of the apartheid system and the identities it fostered. It includes an in-depth examination of the institution of apartheid as a new form of social division, and a combination of post-Marxist and post-structuralist theories of social division and identity formation.  Meer

This study conceptualizes power through a philosophical examination of its uses in contemporary social theory. It draws on the insights of Michel Foucault, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.  Meer

Carl Schmitt's thought serves as a warning against the dangers of complacency entailed by triumphant liberalism. His conception of politics is a challenge to those who believe that there is a third way between the left and right and that the increasing moralisation of political discourse constitutes an advance for democracy.  Meer

A survey of Foucault's corpus, from his early work on madness to the "History of Sexuality", this book portrays Foucault's as falling into neither the relativist nor the positivist categories, but rather as the inventor of a new analysis of modern mechanisms of control and exclusion.  Meer

This work brings together trends of current thinking - Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, neo-Hegelianism and political philosophy - to illuminate the question of identity in the contemporary world.  Meer

This work provides a defence and illustration of deconstruction. Bennington demonstrates the possibility of clear and rigorous explication of deconstructive thought, and explores the political potential of deconstruction, via readings of Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Freud, De Man and Lyotard.  Meer